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A Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction Study of Self-Assembled Monolayers

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We describe the two dimensional structure of n-Alkyl Thiols, CH3(CH217SH(C18, self-assembled on the surfaces of Au(111) and Ag(111). By using Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction (GIXD), we show that C18 forms ordered and dense monolayers. Although the properties of Au and Ag are very similar (for instance, the lattice constants of Au an Ag are nearly identical), the structure of C18on these two substrates is very different.

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This work was performed at the National Sychrotron Light Source which is supported by the Divisions of Material Science and Chemical Science under Department of Energy Contract No. DE-AC02-76CH-00016.

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  1. Dept. of Physics, Princeton Univ., Princeton, N.J., USA

    P. Fenter & P. Eisenberger

  2. Dept. of Chemistry, Princeton Univ., Princeton, N.J., USA

    Jun Li

  3. Exxon Research and Engineering, Annandale, N.J., USA

    P. Fenter, Jun Li, T. A. Ramanarayanan & K. S. Liang

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Fenter, P., Li, J., Eisenberger, P. et al. A Grazing Incidence X-Ray Diffraction Study of Self-Assembled Monolayers. MRS Online Proceedings Library 237, 291–295 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1557/PROC-237-291

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